American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

From New York state to Virginia and back to Cattaraugus County, the 37th New York Regimental Presentation Flag has a storied ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions of a Gary man who fatally shot his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend and also shot and injured his ex-girlfriend.

The Lake County Council agreed to reallocate $600,000 to hire 12 contracted emergency dispatchers to try to alleviate the ...

The flag of truce boat New-York left this afternoon ... large supply of clothing and medical stores for the comfort of the Union prisoners in and about Richmond. On the return of the New-York ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

it did so after an or-else demand that the news agency change its style from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” in line with the president's executive order The Latest Civil ...